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The iphone 5 Is Already On Sale

Or at least an iphone 5 is already on sale in China. Not that it’s a phone from Apple of course: so it’s not an iPhone. But it’s certainly a cheeky attempt at carving out something of a market for the firm, Goophone.

As you might guess from the name of the company it’s also nothing to do with iOS, the operating system instead being Google’s Android. I think it’s a pretty good mixture actually, near ripping off the name of one comany while definitely ripping off the design, look and feel, of another. And name of product of course.

As The Registers points out, the company has a habit of doing this. Their current offering, the Goophone Y5 4S bears a remarkable similarity to something designed in Cupertino as well. Clearly there’s a little niche here that’s worth exploiting.

Two things occur: the first being that while we do know there’s about to be a new iPhone we don’t actually know yet what it’s going to be called. Could be the iPhone 5, could be “new iPhone” Could be the 4X for all we know so far.

The second is that this is an insight into just how far China has to go in defending intellectual property. I’ve long argued that such protection isn’t going to come about as a result of anything that foreigners do. Rather, once Chinese firms are creating such IP that they want to protect then protection there will be. And not until then either.

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Look, I know a pile of people who have succumbed and bought into this. They all threw away the phones inside of a month. This, like the majority of Chinese made product , is trash. So you lose. Your time and your money . if you have money your time is precious, if you do not your money is precious and either way you lose.

iPhone is not on sale for another 3 weeks I heard. But the paper version iPhonie5 is already burning to the underworld in Singapore for the dead. Is Apple going to sue those who make the paper version for burning?

It is not China making cheap, low tech version of stuff. It is China making many high tech stuff that is OEM under various brands, such as Dell, Panasonic, Sony and many more.

From low tech to high tech China made and acquired the technology and skill to do it. China is launching their own GPS system. Stealth fighters and the modern technology for warfare. We always been dismissive and laughing at 3rd world countries. Take a closer look, they have moved way ahead and leaving most of us in the dust cloud, its not iCloud I am talking about.